Come as a child again, a simple
spontaneous joy of living
I enter into the Gladness of Living
Who would
not be a child again? Who would not again have the simple faith and childlike
trust that somehow or other we seem to lose on the pathway of human experience.
Things crowd in on us until we seem to lose some of the greatest of all gifts –
the simple, spontaneous joy of living and a trust in the Power of good, which
alone is able, ready and willing to meet all of our needs. Let us, then, again return
to the place of assurance that comes with the simplicity of faith.
I now
release the multitude of doubts and fears that crowd into my mind, and I become quiet so that the Divine miracle may
take place in my life. I let every good I possess become multiplied as Divine
Love acts upon my faith to bring into my experience everything necessary to my
well-being, I know that the Divine Good includes all things that are necessary:
food and shelter, love and friendship, and the accomplishment of every right
purpose.
And so my faith, the faith of the little child
in me, rises with expectancy to meet this new day in joy and to accept the
bounty of heaven. With the faith of a little child I place my human hand in the
invisible hand of the all-sustaining Good, and I let the miracle of Life and
Love take place. I break my bread with thanks and distribute such good as I
have to everyone I meet. I say of my own household and the households of
others: God bless the four corners of this house, and the lintels blest, and
bless the bed and bless the board, and bless each place of rest. And bless the
door that opens wide to stranger as to kin, and bless each crystal windowpane
that lets the sunlight in.
Ernest Holmes (paraphrased
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